During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

to the Cuban Missile Crisis (The Week at World’s End). If your children haven’t yet discovered her, they have plenty of catching up to do this summer: The Houdini Inheritance is her 15th novel ...

PW spoke with the bestselling author about her new picture book, which has received a starred review from PW, in which a young girl makes a deep connection with a peanut vendor in her native Cuba ...

Cruise missiles of past wars have meant the death of the delivery pilot. "A One Way Trip To Death" explores the history of how this lethal assault weapon came about, and how it played an impressive ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in Europe. America and the Soviet Union were competing in the ...

NOVA: What was your role in the Cuban missile crisis? Brugioni ... So when he told me he was coming up with 65 feet, I opened the book to a photograph of a missile in the streets of Moscow ...

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

Here's a look at key events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis and what unfolded. » VIDEO PREVIEW: Leadership in a nuclear world [opens in a new window] Key players: Cuban leader Fidel Castro ...